United Nations: Man as an End in Himself

In the lobbies and meeting halls of
the United Nations, U.S. Ambassador Adlai Stevenson often hears the
argument of new nations that democracy is a luxury they cannot afford.
Stevenson can make a good case to the contrary, as he showed last week
in an eloquent address in Manhattan before the Center for the Study of
Democratic Institutions:

"There is precious little dignity or equality in our natural state. Most
human beings have to spend their lives in utter vulnerability. All are
born unequal, in terms of capacity or strength . . . and survive only
through the restraint shown...